The Ministry of Health of Russia refutes the fact that Russia is in the top 5 countries in terms of the spread of HIV. We are talking about publications in some publications in the wake of the UNAIDS report, the report
Parliamentary newspaper.

The incidence of HIV in Russia has decreased today, December 8, officially on the website of the Ministry of Health. In 2019, the spread of HIV increased by 6.8% compared to 2018, by 24.8% in 2020, and by 2% last year.

The data published by the author of the alleged publication, without checking the growth and development of other propaganda, threats, and tendentiously interprets the figures from different sources of the spread of the virus epidemic for different years observed in the department. “Moreover, the presented data does not provide an assessment of the situation with the spread of HIV infection in the Russian Federation.

In our country, HIV testing coverage is one of the highest among all countries in the world. It makes up almost 30% of the country’s population, concentrated in the Ministry of Health. It has almost doubled since 2000, from 24 million to 42 million last year. This makes it possible to obtain difficult objective data, to identify diseases at the stage of the disease, and to begin their treatment.

HIV incidence in Russia: by 6.8% in 2019 compared to 2018, by 24.8% in 2020 compared to 2019, by 2% last year compared to 2020, – statistics from the Ministry of Health excluded . – The total incidence from 2018 to 2021 was controlled by 31.4%. At the end of last year, the number of people living with HIV in our country amounted to 851,754 people, which is approximately 0.58% of the population.

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